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At least 120 workers have been rendered unemployed following the demolition of some factories situated at the Trade Fair. Raymond Archer, Chief Executive Officer of Universal Labels & Packaging Co. Ltd and Colour Planet Limited, whose facilities were among the many that were demolished Sunday night by the Ghana Trade Fair Company Limited (GTFC) told GhanaWeb his factory has been ...

The Association of Private Healthcare Providers has warned they will withdraw their services if government does not pay up its indebtedness to them. Addressing the media Monday,Executive Director of Health Insurance Service Providers Association of Ghana Frank Torblu said their members are being constantly harassed by state revenue agencies that they owe. “Ladies and gentlemen, it is very sad for ...

The Electoral Commission has declined a request by Ashaiman MP Ernest Norgbe to share information on how it selected its consultants. In a letter addressed to lawyer for the MP Martin Kpebu, the EC said the MP has not paid the necessary charges under the Right to Information law to enable him have access to the Information required. The legislature ...

The 66 Artillery Regiment in Ho has evacuated some 21 persons including a lady believed to be receiving military training from a secessionists group – Homeland Study Group Foundation, in thickets of Kpevedue and Fievue, a twin community on the Ghana-Togo border in the Ketu North Municipality of the Volta Region. The ‘recruits’ were rounded up in a dawn operation ...

Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor, a controversial journalist and social media commentator, has come under heavy backlash for some repulsive comments he made against the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference for condemning vigilantism. The journalist on his US-based ‘Loud Silence Radio & TV Network’ stated that the Bishops are speaking like they are having “menopause”. “You people are already politicians…you’re speaking like ...

Lawyer for the two University of Ghana lecturers who have been suspended over the BBC’s sex for grade documentary has welcomed the punishment, but with reservation. According to Francis-Xavier Sosu, considering the other sanctions attached to the suspension, the action is too harsh. “It is for this reason that we find the decision to be a little too harsh and ...

The deputy national organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Chief Biney has served notice that he is geared up for a robust campaign aimed at bringing former president John Mahama back to power. After a short political hiatus to focus on his historic marriage with the deputy CEO of MASLOC, Afia Akoto, the affable politician took to his social ...

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, expressed outrage when her staff who were sent to the market to buy shito for Ghanaians stranded in China said a bottle of shito costs GH¢80. The minister vented that she can’t buy that shito for GH¢80 and will go to the market herself to get cheaper options. Ideally, the ...

President  Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, 16th February 2020, commissioned a newly constructed Business Resource Centre (BRC) at Kadjebi in the Akan Constituency, in the Oti Region. The Business Resource Centre is mandated to promote and support the national industrialization agenda of the Akufo-Addo Government, and will serve as a one-stop-shop for business development and investment in the constituency. It will also ...

Officials of the National Security Sunday night stormed the premises of factories owned by former journalist Raymond Archer at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra and demolished it. Several properties of Universal Labels & Packaging Co. Ltd and Colour Planet Limited were damaged by the state security agency. It is unclear the basis for the demolishing. Speaking to Starrfm.com.gh, a ...